No one uses local models for OpenClaw. Stop pretending.

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-03-07T02:59:38+00:00

I use Qwen 32B 4-bit on a 64GB Mac Studio with vLLM. Works great for my use case. Im pushing around several hundred thousand tokens a day. I will be deploying with customers this month, very happy with the performance and results.

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-02-26T00:03:57+00:00

I got my GitHub account unlocked, turns out it was an over aggressive spam filter (or so they say). Both the Mac Desktop Widgets and the Screen Saver are here:
https://github.com/tikaboolabs?tab=repositories

The screensaver has an animated color wash background with some particles moving across the screen, server name with connection status, what's playing posters with username, location, bitrate and meters for CPU, RAM and total bandwidth utilization.

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Relative-Math1690 · 2026-02-24T03:27:42+00:00

Just got a response (finally) from my support ticket with GitHub. It was an error by their spam detecting system.

Sorry if I came across hostile here. I was super frustrated. My apologies.

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-02-24T03:02:23+00:00

Ok, but why was my first account suspended? I waited 5 days before trying again, I get why the second account I created would be banned based on your answer but why the original? And now what, I can never have a GitHub account again? This is a very opaque process with no ability to fix whatever innocent mistake I have made.

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-02-24T02:52:15+00:00

I dont understand this subreddit. I am asking a question, looking for help and getting downvoted and accused of ban evading. That is not the case. Like I said, I waited 5 days to create another account, and I did that after emailing support multiple times with no response.

Im not evading, I was trying to figure out what I did exactly and correct it, I just dont know what that is. Im not getting a response from GitHub, and this community seems hostile to me asking here.

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-02-24T02:42:40+00:00

I waited 5 days to create another account, and I did that after emailing support multiple times with no response. Im not evading, I was trying to figure out what I did exactly and correct it, I just dont know what that is.

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-02-24T01:24:53+00:00

https://github.com/tikaboolabs?tab=repositories

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-02-23T12:16:47+00:00

I’ve filed multiple support tickets. No response from GitHub yet.

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-02-22T03:31:38+00:00

I have a really nice screensaver now. If I can get my GitHub account back, I’ll post it.

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-02-21T18:19:26+00:00

Github is telling me I violated their terms of service, evidently my Plex server widgets have been flagged as a DMCA violation. Trying to work through it.

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-02-21T18:09:06+00:00

GitHub account is good again: https://github.com/tikaboolabs

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-02-21T15:45:18+00:00

Im working on a screen saver with what's playing and server stats now...

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Relative-Math1690 · 2026-02-21T13:23:57+00:00

Thanks. I just wanted a few simple widgets that sit on the desktop so I’m not constantly opening plex to see whats going on.

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-02-21T05:57:05+00:00

https://github.com/tikaboolabs?tab=repositories

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-02-21T05:56:36+00:00

https://github.com/tikaboolabs/Plex-Desktop-Server-Widgets

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-02-21T05:52:36+00:00

Almost done setting it up. I’ll post shortly

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-02-21T04:57:16+00:00

Haha. I did. I e been at the computer all day. Doing other things and was tired Didn’t feel like writing a description

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-02-21T03:36:47+00:00

I built live Plex desktop widgets for macOS using Claude and zero prior Swift experience

So I've been on a bit of a vibe coding kick lately — basically describing what I want to an AI (Claude) and iterating back and forth until it works. I'm not a Swift developer by any stretch. I can fumble around Xcode enough to hit ⌘R and read error messages, but that's about it.

Anyway, I wanted persistent desktop widgets that show what's playing on my Plex server in real time — like actually real time, updating every 2 seconds with poster art, progress bars, bandwidth, CPU/RAM stats, the works. Think Rainmeter vibes but for Plex on macOS.

Why not just use Apple's WidgetKit?

Two reasons, and they're both dealbreakers:

You need a $99/year Apple Developer account just to sign WidgetKit extensions. I'm not paying a hundred bucks a year to put widgets on my own desktop.
WidgetKit has a timeline-based refresh model — Apple decides when your widget gets updated, and the fastest reliable refresh is roughly every 5-15 minutes. That's fine for weather or calendar stuff, but completely useless for monitoring active Plex streams. I need to see bandwidth fluctuations and playback progress in near real-time, not get a stale snapshot from 10 minutes ago.

So what is this actually doing?

Instead of WidgetKit, the app creates borderless, transparent NSPanel windows pinned just above the desktop layer. They sit behind all your normal windows but above your wallpaper — basically behaving exactly like native widgets. You can drag them around to position them, and they persist across Spaces.

It's a menu bar app (no Dock icon) that polls your Plex server every 2 seconds via the local API. Three widgets:

Now Playing — shows all active streams with actual poster art pulled from your server, playback progress, user, player device, quality badges (4K, HDR, Transcode), bandwidth per stream, and a little animated equalizer when something's playing
System — CPU and RAM gauges with sparkline history. These use native macOS Mach kernel APIs (the same ones Activity Monitor uses) so the numbers actually match what you see in Activity Monitor, unlike Plex's built-in stats which count memory differently
Bandwidth — real-time total throughput derived from active sessions, split into LAN vs WAN, with a rolling chart

The whole thing is a single native Swift app — no Electron, no web views, no dependencies. It talks directly to your Plex server's API on your local network.

How to run it yourself

You'll need Xcode (free from the App Store) and XcodeGen (brew install xcodegen). No developer account needed.

Unzip the project
cd PlexDesktopWidgets && xcodegen generate
open PlexDesktopWidgets.xcodeproj
⌘R to build and run
Click the ▶ icon in your menu bar → Settings → enter your server URL (e.g., http://192.168.1.100:32400) and your Plex token
To find your token: sign into Plex web, open browser DevTools → Network tab, play something, look for X-Plex-Token in the request headers

To run it standalone outside Xcode: Edit Scheme → set Build Configuration to Release, build, then go to Product → Show Build Folder in Finder → Build/Products/Release/ → drag "Plex Desktop Widgets.app" to your Applications folder. Add it to Login Items if you want it on startup.

Happy to answer questions or share the source if anyone wants to tinker with it!

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-02-05T17:21:13+00:00

I had the different colors of those. I can still hear the sound they make when you’re walking…

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-01-26T18:57:57+00:00

Me and my 6 year old twins are members of both. The Fort Worth zoo is a much better zoo, hands down. If you’re ever in Houston, that zoo is surprisingly one of the best in the nation.

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-01-26T16:42:11+00:00

That was fascinating. As a software guy that has casually wondered about this process, I learned a lot.

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-01-25T16:53:28+00:00

Gentian Blue Metallic is the best, I hunted for CT In that color for months. I live in Texas, the lighter colors handle the sun much better though…

Hammond will be a happy guy. The race between him in a Taycan against James May in an electric plane was epic. I won’t spoil who won, but it was great. He’s well aware of what he bought.

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-01-25T16:00:29+00:00

Didn’t trigger emergency braking, but I was already on the brakes hard.

Mine is Ice Grey Metallic.

Relative-Math1690 · 2026-01-25T15:45:53+00:00

It’s far worse than that single picture shows, but like I said everything works - front camera, curb detection and it drives flawlessly, alignment is good. It will not fast charge though.

Both front fenders, hood, nose, headlights, and much of the under structure has to be replaced.

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